Anyone who has watched a sporting event on TV has heard something along the lines of, “Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without express written consent is prohibited.” The message is relatively simple: This broadcast is a product, our product, and we are the only people allowed to show it. (We did, after all, and pay a pretty penny for it.) But things have gotten infinitely more complicated in the past few years.
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Field of Streams, Part 2
Posted by: David Vranicar August 3, 2011 05:00 AMAnyone who has watched a sporting event on TV has heard something along the lines of, “Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without express written consent is prohibited.” The message is relatively simple: This broadcast is a product, our product, and we are the only people allowed to show it. (We did, after all, and pay a pretty penny for it.) But things have gotten infinitely more complicated in the past few years.